Possessors Quotes

36 quotes by 31 authors

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach… — Upton Sinclair
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political authority,… — James F. Cooper
There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become… — King Hussein I
Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds — Samuel Butler
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. — James F. Cooper
In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable… — Kathryn Lasky
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch… — George Sutherland
The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like… — John Bright
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. — William Graham Sumner
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all… — David Mamet
As a rule, we must not be the slaves of passion; rather, we must be the possessors of great passions. Through passion commences power, but… — C. JoyBell C.
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch… — George Sutherland

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